Don Quixote — Chapter 106 in Spanish
By Miguel de Cervantes
Resolviéronse el duque y la duquesa de que el desafío que don Quijote hizo a su vasallo, por la causa ya referida, pasase adelante; y, puesto que el mozo estaba en Flandes, adonde se había ido huyendo, por no tener por suegra a doña Rodríguez, ordenaron de poner en su lugar a un lacayo gascón, que se llamaba Tosilos, industriándole primero muy bien de todo lo que había de hacer. The duke and duchess resolved that the challenge Don Quixote had, for the reason already mentioned, given their vassal, should be proceeded with; and as the young man was in Flanders, whither he had fled to escape having Dona Rodriguez for a mother-in-law, they arranged to substitute for him a Gascon lacquey, named Tosilos, first of all carefully instructing him in all he had to do. De allí a dos días dijo el duque a don Quijote como desde allí a cuatro vendría su contrario, y se presentaría en el campo, armado como caballero, y sustentaría como la doncella mentía por mitad de la barba, y aun por toda la barba entera, si se afirmaba que él le hubiese dado palabra de casamiento. Two days later the duke told Don Quixote that in four days from that time his opponent would present himself on the field of battle armed as a knight, and would maintain that the damsel lied by half a beard, nay a whole beard, if she affirmed that he had given her a promise of marriage. Don Quijote recibió mucho gusto con las tales nuevas, y se prometió a sí mismo de hacer maravillas en el caso, y tuvo a gran ventura habérsele ofrecido ocasión donde aquellos señores pudiesen ver hasta dónde se estendía el valor de su poderoso brazo; y así, con alborozo y contento, esperaba los cuatro días, que se le iban haciendo, a la cuenta de su deseo, cuatrocientos siglos. Don Quixote was greatly pleased at the news, and promised himself to do wonders in the lists, and reckoned it rare good fortune that an opportunity should have offered for letting his noble hosts see what the might of his strong arm was capable of; and so in high spirits and satisfaction he awaited the expiration of the four days, which measured by his impatience seemed spinning themselves out into four hundred ages. Dejémoslos pasar nosotros, como dejamos pasar otras cosas, y vamos a acompañar a Sancho, que entre alegre y triste venía caminando sobre el rucio a buscar a su amo, cuya compañía le agradaba más que ser gobernador de todas las ínsulas del mundo. Let us leave them to pass as we do other things, and go and bear Sancho company, as mounted on Dapple, half glad, half sad, he paced along on his road to join his master, in whose society he was happier than in being governor of all the islands in the world. Sucedió, pues, que, no habiéndose alongado mucho de la ínsula del su gobierno —que él nunca se puso a averiguar si era ínsula, ciudad, villa o lugar la que gobernaba—, vio que por el camino por donde él iba venían seis peregrinos con sus bordones, de estos estranjeros que piden la limosna cantando, los cuales, en llegando a él, se pusieron en ala, y, levantando las voces todos juntos, comenzaron a cantar en su lengua lo que Sancho no pudo entender, si no fue una palabra que claramente pronunciaba limosna, por donde entendió que era limosna la que en su canto pedían; y como él, según dice Cide Hamete, era caritativo además, sacó de sus alforjas medio pan y medio queso, de que venía proveído, y dióselo, diciéndoles por señas que no tenía otra cosa que darles. Well then, it so happened that before he had gone a great way from the island of his government (and whether it was island, city, town, or village that he governed he never troubled himself to inquire) he saw coming along the road he was travelling six pilgrims with staves, foreigners of that sort that beg for alms singing; who as they drew near arranged themselves in a line and lifting up their voices all together began to sing in their own language something that Sancho could not with the exception of one word which sounded plainly "alms," from which he gathered that it was alms they asked for in their song; and being, as Cide Hamete says, remarkably charitable, he took out of his alforias the half loaf and half cheese he had been provided with, and gave them to them, explaining to them by signs that he had nothing else to give them. Ellos lo recibieron de muy buena gana, y dijeron: They received them very gladly, but exclaimed, "Geld! Geld!"
«No entiendo qué queréis de mí, buena gente», dijo Sancho. "I don't understand what you want of me, good people," said Sancho.
Entonces uno de ellos sacó una bolsa del seno y mostrósela a Sancho, por donde entendió que le pedían dineros; y él, poniéndose el dedo pulgar en la garganta y estendiendo la mano arriba, les dio a entender que no tenía ostugo de moneda, y, picando al rucio, rompió por ellos; y, al pasar, habiéndole estado mirando uno dellos con mucha atención, arremetió a él, echándole los brazos por la cintura; en voz alta y muy castellana, dijo: On this one of them took a purse out of his bosom and showed it to Sancho, by which he comprehended they were asking for money, and putting his thumb to his throat and spreading his hand upwards he gave them to understand that he had not the sign of a coin about him, and urging Dapple forward he broke through them. y, al pasar, habiéndole estado mirando uno dellos con mucha atención, arremetió a él, echándole los brazos por la cintura; en voz alta y muy castellana, dijo: ¡Dios me bendiga! But as he was passing, one of them who had been examining him very closely rushed towards him, and flinging his arms round him exclaimed in a loud voice and good Spanish, "God bless me! ¿Qué es esto que veo? What's this I see? ¿Es posible que tengo en mis brazos al mi caro amigo, al mi buen vecino Sancho Panza? Is it possible that I hold in my arms my dear friend, my good neighbour Sancho Panza? Sí tengo, sin duda, porque yo ni duermo, ni estoy ahora borracho. But there's no doubt about it, for I'm not asleep, nor am I drunk just now."
Admiróse Sancho de verse nombrar por su nombre y de verse abrazar del estranjero peregrino, y, después de haberle estado mirando sin hablar palabra, con mucha atención, nunca pudo conocerle; pero, viendo su suspensión el peregrino, le dijo: Sancho was surprised to hear himself called by his name and find himself embraced by a foreign pilgrim, and after regarding him steadily without speaking he was still unable to recognise him; but the pilgrim perceiving his perplexity cried, "What! — ¿Cómo, y es posible, Sancho Panza hermano, que no conoces a tu vecino Ricote el morisco, tendero de tu lugar? and is it possible, Sancho Panza, that thou dost not know thy neighbour Ricote, the Morisco shopkeeper of thy village?"